December 19, 2019
YUFA's Community Projects has recently launched a video, which highlights a range of community organizations and initiatives that YUFA has supported over the past few years. As the video shows, YUFA’s commitment to our neighbours and to social justice work in the Greater Toronto Area...
December 18, 2019
By Prof. Art Redding: As President of YUFA, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the inaugural issue of Active Voice (to be issued in January 2020). At Executive, we have batted around a few provisional titles and mulled over a variety of approaches. How official should this publication be? How open to dissent, to debate? What...
December 18, 2019
By Prof. Teresa Macias and Prof. Lykke de la Cour: As YUFA’s Equity Officers, we would like to take the opportunity of this inaugural issue of Active Voice to highlight the important work that the Union undertakes around equity issues—and, for new members, to briefly overview how equity-related work is structured within the...
December 18, 2019
By Prof. Walter Whiteley: As we move on from the September week of action on the Climate Crisis, and come to terms with the results of the 2019 federal election, this is the time for York University to declare a climate emergency, and implement the appropriate, urgent actions.
December 18, 2019
The following updates are based on the latest information provided by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). Bill 124: The Ford government’s bill, the Protecting a Sustainable Public Sector for Future Generations Act, became law on November 7, 2019, after passing third reading in the Ontario Legislature. Workers who will be affected...
November 20, 2019
The YUFA Equity Sub-Committee and Equity Caucuses cordially invite all YUFA members to join us at an end-of-term Holiday Equity Social to help celebrate the many efforts of our members to make York a better and more equitable place to work and learn. The event will take place as follows.
November 11, 2019
Dear colleagues: You're invited to attend the next YUFA meet-and-greet, a series of YUFA-sponsored socials to be held on the first Tuesday of the month.
November 08, 2019
YUFA is re-posting its May 25, 2017 YUFA-M communication regarding short-listing procedures for tenure-track/continuing appointment hires where candidates have a terminal degree from York University. YUFA is concerned to remind members about these procedures, which are the result of a mediated settlement signed by YUFA and the Employer. YUFA has...
November 01, 2019
Dear colleagues: You're invited to attend the next YUFA meet-and-greet, a series of YUFA-sponsored socials to be held on the first Tuesday of the month.
October 23, 2019
Will it encourage members to delay retirement? As members are aware, YUFA and the York administration have been engaged in a very important dispute over the commitment the University made in the 2018 round of negotiations to provide CPI-based indexing for members’ minimum guarantee pensions. After negotiations ended in the fall...